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CISTUS rotundifolius. 

 Round-leaved Rock-Rose. 



Sect. I. ERYTHROCISTUS. Supra fol. 3. 



* Pedunculi* unifloris, axillaribus vel terminalibus, solitariis um- 

 bellatisve ; stylo cylindrico, stepb staminibus longiore ; stigmate capi- 

 tato bsulcato. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264. 



C. rotundifolius, foliis rotundato-ovatis obtusis planis rugosis reti- 

 culato venosis utrinque fasciculato-pilosis, petiolis sulcatis subva- 

 ginantibus, pedunculis hirsutissimis subcymosis unifloris 1-3-nisve, 

 sepalis cordatis acutis pilosis, petalis imbricatis. 



C. villosus . virescens. DC. prodr. 1. p. 264 ? 



Cistus latifolius magno flore. Barrel, ic. 1315. 



A pretty dwarf, very bushy, upright, evergreen shrub, 

 scarcely exceeding a foot in height, but densely crowded 

 with branches, clothed with rigid persistent hairs: 

 branches upright, short, thickly clothed with fascicles of 

 short rigid unequal hairs. Leaves opposite, often as 

 broad as long, roundly ovate, very obtuse, flat, rugged, 

 reticulately veined, of a darkish green, clothed with 

 bunches of short hairs on both sides, rough at the mar- 

 gins : upper ones narrower, not so blunt, and more ta- 

 pering to the base. Petioles winged oh each side, sheath- 

 ing the stem at the base, channelled on the upper side, 

 densely clothed with short hairs. Flowers purple, in a 

 terminal few-flowered cyme. Bractes leaf-like, linear, 

 obtuse, sessile, one at the base of each peduncle. Pe- 

 duncles 1 to 3-flowered, thickly clothed with fascicles of 

 short rigid hairs. Calyx of 5 sepals, broadly cordate, 

 acute, reticulately veined ; the outer ones largest, dense- 

 ly clothed with shortish rigid hairs. Petals 5, much 

 imbricate, broadly obovate, a little crumpled, purple, 

 with a yellow spot at the base. Stamens numerous : 



